Operations, Backup, CxO Events, Fortinet (298.1.10)
Volume 298, Issue 1: Jan 2nd, 2023 — Jan 8th, 2023
Operations
3 ITOperations And Management Trends To Watch In 2023
IT teams are going to have their hands full in 2023, but these three trends will likely play a key role in keeping operations running effectively.
For many IT teams, 2023 is looking to be a year of daunting challenges.
With fears of economic slowdown and recession, budgets are likely to be constrained as executives ask IT teams to do more with less. IT operations and management teams will not only have to "keep the lights on" and maintain operations but do so in a more optimized way than ever before. Few organizations, even with constrained budgets, will want to just maintain operations, as there is a need to continually develop new services as well. ... more
Enterprise Content Management Best Practices
In today's world, all organizations have put a significant emphasis on drawing insights from data collected from varied systems (both internal and external).
These insights have given an edge to companies in making better decisions and conducting business. An important aspect of collecting the data and curating it falls into the hands of the Enterprise Content Management team (ECM), which has an immense responsibility in collecting both structured and unstructured content from a wide range of sources and storing high-volume content along with its metadata. ... more
Backup
Gartner Promotes The Need For Heightened Storage & Backup Security To Combat Ransomware
Gartner recently emphasized the need for much stricter security in a recent report, 'Hype Cycle for Storage and Data Protection Technologies, 2022.'
Gartner analyst Julia Palmer focused on emerging innovative storage and data protection technologies. She evaluated their business impact, reviewed their adoption rates and maturity levels, and recommended ways to build adaptable and future-ready storage, and data protection platforms to meet changing business needs. ... more
Best Of 2022 - Backups, Security, And Ransomware
Nothing but the best for our listeners! Curtis and Prasanna review their favorite episodes from 2022, from the time Curtis had to restore Backup Central to the shocking outage at Rackspace ( which is still ongoing!).
This is your chance to catch up on what you missed last year as we prepare for a new year! Here are links to all the episodes discussed. Happy New Year! ...
As 2022 comes to an end. This is our year-end review episode, where we talk about, I think about a dozen episodes that really hit home for us during the year. I hope you enjoy it. And I hope you have a great 2023. Hi, and welcome to Backup Central's Restore it All podcast. I'm your host, w Curtis Preston, aka Mr. Backup. And I have with me the guy that can probably explain why there's a lot more echo in this room than there normally is... ... more
Ransomware: Protect Your Data Backups, Too
Ransomware continues to be a growing and increasingly dangerous threat to businesses.
The numbers are ominous: Every 11 seconds a business experiences a ransomware attack, according to current research from Veeam. Most organizations recognize the urgency of protecting their networks, but they may not realize that's only half the battle. Experience shows that virtually all attackers also try to destroy or encrypt backup repositories. Without backups that can be used for a fast recovery, victims have no choice but to pay the ransom. Here's how to defend against that threat. ... more
CxO Events
IDC Worldwide C-Suite Survey: Priorities, Economic Challenges, and the Evolution of the C-Suite (Jan. 18th)
In this webinar IDC highlights the results and analysis of our latest C-Suite Survey data including over 800 business executives from around the world.
Hosted by IDC ... more
TechTalk: Virtual Southeast (Jan 18th)
Virtual Commercial IT, live interactive online events bring presentations from IT innovators to your desktop -- or wherever you are. Share and discuss content from mixed media -- from live web cameras and video, to presentations and linked content.
Hosted by TechTalk ... more
NETWORKComputing: Secure and Reliable Work-From-Anywhere Connectivity (Jan 24th)
Most businesses will retain a work-from-anywhere strategy for the near future. To combat this, IT departments must go beyond stopgap measures implemented during crises and adopt more strategic approaches.
Hosted by NETWORKComputing ... more
NETWORKComputing: Transform Your Enterprise with Next-Generation SD-WAN (Jan 25th)
Join this live session to hear from Bill Pruitt, Senior Product Manager at Palo Alto Networks, to learn more about our new innovations and experience a demonstration of these capabilities.
Hosted by NETWORKComputing ... more
SNIA: An Introduction to the OPI (Open Programmable Infrastructure) Project (Jan 25th)
A new class of cloud and datacenter infrastructure is emerging into the marketplace. This new infrastructure element, often referred to as Data Processing Unit (DPU), Infrastructure Processing Unit (IPU) or xPU as a general term, takes the form of a server hosted PCIe add-in card or on-board chip(s), containing one or more ASIC's or FPGA's, usually anchored around a single powerful SoC device.
Hosted by SNIA ... more
Fortinet News
Why FortiClient Delivers Better ZTNA
Recently, IT executives from a major technology company paid a visit to the Fortinet corporate offices in Sunnyvale, California. As is typical for prospective customers or partners, the visitors were given demonstrations of our products and solutions in action at our executive briefing center (EBC).
Because our visitors use a competitor's product, they naturally compared experiences with their existing cybersecurity against ours. Happily, we all learned a few things from the exchange of information. As we laid out our architecture for our EBC visitors, one important revelation came to the forefront that we all agreed upon: FortiClient enables the seamless deployment, operation, and architecture of zero-trust network access (ZTNA) ... more
Why You Need Integrated Security And Aiops That Spans The Network
Network operations center (NOC) staff are tasked with not just keeping the network up but also keeping it working well, so users remain happy
But the more complex a network becomes, the more likely it is to have problems. A perfect storm of accelerated digital initiatives, user demands for better experiences, and the expansion of hybrid workforces mean networks are more complicated to manage than ever.
Many organizations have hybrid networks that span on- and off-premises environments. Trying to manage these fluid, adaptive, performance-hungry, and perimeter-less networks has stretched many IT teams to the breaking point. ... more
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